Chloris. } CXLIV. GRAMINER. 611 
m. ara African one, another comes near to an Indian species, the remainder are 
Spike solitary, slender. Flowering glume n nit 20. ew 4. €. wnispicea. 
ame A ign slender. Spikelets acute. Flowering glume 
a tooth lobe or short awn on eu side of the 
Spikes pa mo 1 in, a Lobes of the flowering E 
> ENR 2. C. pumilio. 
Spikes Pope ne 2 to 3 in long. Spi kelots closely approxi- 
m 
ate and regularly satinato, Flow we oo 2-fid, 
unawned, usually scabrous 3. C. pectinata. 
Spikes 6 to 12 o 3 to 6 in. on ; 
ueni dae crowded, 2 lines long. Flowering gine 
e tooth or point o on each side of the . 4. C. divaricata. 
Spikelets Setai, 3 pce Flower o: ue tape 
into the awn r very min utely toothe 5. C. acicularis. 
Spikes digitate, slender, 3 vi 6 in. long. Spikelets very obtuse 
or truncate, 
te cuneate, truncate, 1 to 1i lines long. Flowering 
me oblong, obtuse. Upper yf one broad, trun- 
6. C. truncata, 
ads very obtuse, m to 2! lines. Le en glume very 
embracing the aes ptyone . . . . 7. C, ventricosa. 
Spikes digitato, dense, 1 to 2 in. lo 
ge Bs Peas rather acute. Upper empty 
Muse sk mnis trunc Me . 8. €. barbata. 
Flowering glume broad, rigidly " scarious, ciliate. Upper 
empty glumes several, E scarious, very spreading. 9. C. seariosa. 
least 2 lines long. Flowering glume on a hairy stipes, narrow, thin, 
aintly 3-nerved, tapering at the top, nearly as long as the e b nies 
entire, fo a ag of 2 to 3 lines. Terminal empty g 
Queensland. Hie Creek, Bowman. 
2. C. », R. Br. Prod. 186.—A small glabrous grass, our 
omens 4 to 8 in. high, with the bise of a Cynodon. Spikes 3 to 
5, about 1 in. long. Spikelets narrow and crowded but all turned to 
N. pe Islands off the north coast, R. Brown; Norman Nov c 
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